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MNKyDeth

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TurboDuo backup ram?
« on: April 09, 2015, 02:43:34 AM »
Not sure if this has been asked before, I prolly could have put forth a better effort of searching.

But, is it possible to increase the size of the backup ram on the console for save games? Mostly just curious.

MNKyDeth

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Re: TurboDuo backup ram?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2015, 03:00:45 AM »
Lol, that would be pretty amazing to own a Duo for a group of games just for the backup ram space. But alas, I believe I am going to limit myself to the one console and just get the needed items I want for it so it does everything that I want.

And... since you mentioned the  tennokoe bank cards. I see there is the card and the bank 2. I seems the bank 2 fits on the back of a console correct? So I would be more interested in just the card itself.

Now, since it is a card does that mean I can only use it for cd-rom based games? Or does it allow me to backup my backup storage?

MNKyDeth

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Re: TurboDuo backup ram?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2015, 03:22:18 AM »
Uhg, should have asked this in the last post but it was an after thought.

That is a PCE card so I would need to mod my US Duo to use it without issues correct?

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Re: TurboDuo backup ram?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2015, 03:25:51 AM »
Yep, you'd need a region mod of some sort to use it.

It provides 3 memory banks plus has the option to swap the system's save ram with one of its banks...

It has four banks, ya f*ckin' noob!
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MNKyDeth

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Re: TurboDuo backup ram?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2015, 03:31:37 AM »
I might hold off for that then. The "Everdrive 2"... I was planning on buying an everdrive at some point so I would not need to swap out my HuCards.

I have a few extra 32Gig sdcards laying around here somewhere....

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Re: TurboDuo backup ram?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2015, 06:55:34 PM »
Just FYI TurboED does not work with Tennokoe so you can't use it to swap memory out of backup RAM.  You still need a physical Tennokoe PCE card (with chopsado, region modded TG-16 or Duo, or Japanese console) to use it to swap memory banks.

I have a few 8K SRAM chips that I've been meaning to hack in so I could have multiple banks inside. It would have to be manually switched but it would eliminate running out of space and needing Tennokoe or a System card to access the RAM and delete old saves.